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Wolfstride oozes style. It’s clear from the opener where our main character, Shade, is getting the shit kicked out of him by a dog and a cat in a public restroom. It blends black and white manga-style art with a deep mecha JRPG and off-the-wall characters to create something engaging and unique. It tends to dive down in the much relying on sometimes cringe toilet humor to lighten its strange mood and world, but the weird trashy 90s anime atmosphere works more often than not.
Backbone’s greatest asset is the world it builds. The dreary city streets are made all the more melancholy by the characters that inhabit them. It’s a Noir story through and through, at least, until it isn’t. That’s the strangest thing Backbone does; every single moment feels deliberate and brilliant, and then these moments are undercut by a narrative twist that borders on the absurd.
